Baroque Art & Design

Question 1

Tenebrism

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A style of painting using very pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.

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Caravaggio: Conversion of Saint Paul (1601)

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Gianlorenzo Bernini: David (1623)

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Carlo Maderno: Facade of St. Peter’s Basilica (1607-1626)

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Nicolas Poussin: Landscape with St. Matthew and the Angel (1639-1640)

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Caravaggio: Calling of St. Matthew (1599-1600)

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André Le Nôtre: Palace of Versailles Garden

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Gianlorenzo Bernini: Ecstasy of St. Theresa (1642-1652)

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Baroque

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The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.

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Diego Velásquez: Las Meninas (1656)

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Gianlorenzo Bernini: Piazza of St. Peter’s Basilica (1656-1657)

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Genre Painting

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Pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the term genre works specify the medium or type of visual work, as in genre painting, genre prints, genre photographs, and so on

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Louis Le Vau & Jules Hardouin-Mansart: Pallace of Versailles Building

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Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch (1642)